Rural UK ISP Airband Expands Full Fibre Broadband Reach via Openreach | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Rural broadband provider Airband, which has deployed its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based networks to cover various parts of Wales and South West England, appears to have become the latest alternative network (altnet) to expand beyond their existing reach by adopting Openreach’s full fibre lines for off-net areas. Just to recap. The altnet’s current broadband network spans “more than 440,000 premises in over 200...
Huawei Cloud expands AI portfolio, empowering enterprises across 30 industries | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Partner Article As enterprises across the world ramp up their digital and AI transformations, Huawei Cloud has emerged as a partner of choice with solutions targeted for key industry verticals, such as manufacturing, finance, public services, and retail, among others. The company announced the expansion of its AI-driven cloud portfolio at the recently concluded Huawei Cloud Industry Summit, held as part of Huawei Connect 2025. The two sessions, Huawei...
Channel 4 and the BBC’s UKTV Platform to Exchange UK Streaming TV Content | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More British TV broadcasters Channel 4 and UKTV (U platform), which is owned by the BBC’s commercial division, have today announced a major new multi-year carriage agreement, which will see C4 gaining access to stream thousands of hours of additional free TV content and shows from the BBC via their online service (The Office, Red Dwarf etc.). The agreement, which is expected to enhance the appeal of Channel 4’s streaming service to advertisers and various...
CWP Domain Goes Down and Disrupts Some UK Broadband ISP Switching UPDATE | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Common Wholesale Platform (CWP), which is a non-profit member-owned organisation that helps alternative broadband networks to connect with the retail ISP market, appears to be suffering some sort of disruption today after their main website domain went down (CWPUK.org) and stopped some consumer switching between ISPs. At the time of writing it’s unclear what has caused the outage (some suggest it may be a change of web host), although CWP are one of...
Broadband ISP Rebel Internet Join CityFibre’s UK Full Fibre Network | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Retail broadband ISP Rebel Internet, which was set up a couple of years ago by two former BT executives (here), has this morning announced that they’ve signed a new partnership to harness CityFibre’s growing 5.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – covering around 4.6 million UK premises (4.3m Ready for Service). The move complements their existing relationship with Openreach’s much larger FTTP network (20m premises), which Rebel says will...
Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Extend Full Fibre to 13,000 Homes in Sheffield | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) and network operator partner nexfibre, which share some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve once again expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network to more than 13,000 additional homes in the South Yorkshire (England) city of Sheffield. The roll-out follows an earlier expansion phase in the city that completed in 2023 and added 20,000 homes to their coverage (here),...
Opensignal Examine Performance Gap Between Fixed Line and Wireless Broadband | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More Network benchmarking firm Opensignal, which gathers crowdsourced data from consumer speedtests via its App, has today published a new report that attempts to identify how far behind fixed wireless broadband (FWA) networks are in terms of performance and quality vs modern fixed line networks between 11 different countries. The gap is biggest in countries like the UK. In order to conduct this study, Opensignal appears to have looked at the gap in their...
BDUK Switch Gigabit Broadband Contract for Mid West Shropshire to Openreach | ISPreview UK
Original article ISPreview UK:Read More The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has just announced that their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Mid West Shropshire (Lot 25.01), which was originally held by Voneus until they “mutually agreed to terminate” it at the end of 2024 (here), has now been merged into Openreach’s (BT) existing call-off 3 deployment contract. Just to recap. The Lot 25.01 contract for Mid West Shropshire (England) was originally valued at £12m...
New CityFibre CEO talks growth and altnet consolidation at Connected Britain | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More Interview “Our customers want us to be bigger. We want to get bigger,” incoming CEO Simon Holden told Total Telecom at the event Having onboarded Sky and raised a significant amount of capital this year, CityFibre’s new CEO Simon Holden told Total Telecom the company was primed for further growth through altnet consolidation. “Across the industry, about 17–18 million homes and premises have been made available by the altnets and challengers in...
Orange Business plugs OneWeb into its crisis comms solution | Total Telecom
Original article Total Telecom:Read More News The plug-in-and-play SafetyCase emergency connectivity solution is designed to be deployed rapidly when terrestrial connectivity is unavailable This week, Orange Business has announced it is incorporating Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellite services into its SafetyCase solution. SafetyCase is a rapidly deployable emergency connectivity solution that creates a temporary bubble of Wi-Fi through the ‘intelligent hybridisation’ of available networks – i.e.,...